1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
30 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
32 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
33 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
34 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
35 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
36 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
37 config set index.decrypt true".
39 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
40 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
41 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
42 this feature without considering the security of your index.
44 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
45 ===========================
50 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
51 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
58 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
61 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
62 ===========================
64 Command Line Interface
65 ----------------------
67 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
68 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
73 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
76 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
77 ===========================
82 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
85 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
86 =========================
91 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
93 Skip HTML tags when indexing
95 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
97 Command Line Interface
98 ----------------------
100 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
102 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
107 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
109 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
110 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
113 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
118 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
120 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
121 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
123 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
125 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
126 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
129 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
131 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
133 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
135 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
136 ===========================
138 Command Line Interface
139 ----------------------
141 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
146 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
148 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
149 ===========================
154 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
156 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
157 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
160 Command Line Interface
161 ----------------------
163 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
165 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
167 Fix bug in dump header
169 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
170 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
171 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
176 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
178 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
179 =========================
184 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
186 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
189 Command Line Interface
190 ----------------------
192 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
194 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
195 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
196 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
198 New default output format to 3
200 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
201 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
202 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
203 default format changes.
208 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
210 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
211 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
212 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
213 or tree view to resume.
215 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
216 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
217 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
220 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
221 they were when you postponed in the final message.
225 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
226 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
227 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
228 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
229 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
233 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
234 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
235 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
236 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
237 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
238 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
242 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
243 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
245 Stop display of `application/*` parts
247 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
248 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
249 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
250 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
251 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
252 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
253 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
254 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
257 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
259 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
260 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
261 only tagged the current thread.)
263 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
265 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
266 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
267 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
269 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
271 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
272 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
273 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
274 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
275 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
276 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
277 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
279 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
281 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
282 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
283 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
288 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
290 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
293 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
295 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
298 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
299 ===========================
304 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
306 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
307 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
308 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
311 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
312 ===========================
314 Command Line Interface
315 ----------------------
317 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
322 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
324 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
325 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
326 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
328 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
329 ===========================
334 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
335 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
337 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
338 ===========================
340 Command Line Interface
341 ----------------------
343 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
345 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
346 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
347 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
352 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
354 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
355 ===========================
357 Command Line Interface
358 ----------------------
360 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
365 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
367 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
368 ===========================
373 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
375 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
376 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
377 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
379 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
381 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
383 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
384 ===========================
389 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
391 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
396 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
398 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
399 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
400 the original colours.
402 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
403 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
405 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
407 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
408 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
409 bug, and hence the test.
411 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
412 =========================
414 General (Xapian 1.4+)
415 ---------------------
417 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
419 Support for single argument date: queries
421 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
423 Support for blocking opens
425 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
426 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
428 Support for named queries
430 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
431 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
432 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
439 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
440 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
441 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
442 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
444 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
446 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
451 Support for compile time options
453 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
454 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
457 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
459 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
460 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
461 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
462 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
463 scripts to ignore it.
468 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
470 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
471 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
472 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
474 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
475 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
476 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
477 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
478 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
479 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
480 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
482 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
483 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
486 Make internal address completion customizable
488 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
489 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
490 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
491 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
494 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
496 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
497 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
498 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
499 completion for the current buffer.
501 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
502 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
503 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
507 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
508 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
509 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
510 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
511 will be added instead.
513 Face customization is easier
515 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
516 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
517 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
518 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
520 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
525 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
530 Go bindings moved to contrib
532 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
534 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
536 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
537 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
539 The same issue occured with sort modes.
541 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
542 ===========================
549 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
550 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
552 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
554 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
556 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
557 ===========================
562 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
564 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
569 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
574 Use `env` to locate perl.
579 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
581 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
583 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
585 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
587 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
588 =========================
595 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
596 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
598 Limited support for S/MIME messages
600 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
601 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
602 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
607 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
608 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
609 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
611 Command Line Interface
612 ----------------------
614 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
616 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
621 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
626 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
628 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
629 parts are now included in replies.
631 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
632 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
633 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
634 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
636 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
638 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
640 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
642 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
643 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
644 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
645 forwards only the current message.
647 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
649 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
650 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
651 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
652 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
653 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
654 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
655 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
656 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
659 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
660 longer generate empty buffers
662 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
663 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
664 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
665 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
666 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
668 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
670 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
673 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
675 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
678 Address completion improvements
680 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
681 you previously configured one, customize the variable
682 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
683 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
684 interactive address completion.
686 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
688 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
689 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
690 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
695 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
696 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
697 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
703 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
704 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
705 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
706 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
707 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
708 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
710 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
711 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
712 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
713 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
714 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
715 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
717 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
718 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
720 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
721 =========================
726 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
729 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
731 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
732 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
733 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
735 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
736 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
738 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
739 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
740 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
742 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
744 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
745 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
746 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
747 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
748 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
749 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
754 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
755 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
758 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
761 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
763 Command Line Interface
764 ----------------------
766 Database revision tracking
768 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
769 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
770 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
771 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
773 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
775 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
776 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
777 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
778 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
779 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
780 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
781 manual page for further information.
786 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
788 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
789 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
791 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
793 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
794 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
795 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
797 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
799 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
801 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
802 customization as well.
804 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
806 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
808 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
810 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
812 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
813 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
814 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
815 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
817 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
819 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
820 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
821 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
822 this variable to 10000.
827 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
828 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
830 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
832 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
833 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
834 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
835 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
836 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
837 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
838 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
839 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
840 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
843 Database revision tracking
845 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
846 query parser and the new function
847 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
849 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
853 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
854 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
855 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
856 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
861 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
863 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
864 ===========================
869 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
871 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
872 ===========================
877 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
879 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
880 =========================
882 Command-Line Interface
883 ----------------------
885 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
887 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
888 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
889 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
891 Path to gpg is now configurable
893 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
894 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
899 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
901 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
906 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
911 Support messages without Message-IDs.
916 Undeprecate single message mboxes
918 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
919 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
921 New error logging facility
923 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
924 output formerly printed to stderr.
926 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
928 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
930 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
932 Fix for rounding of seconds
937 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
939 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
940 docmumentation has been removed.
942 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
944 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
945 some material from the relicensed wiki.
950 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
951 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
952 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
957 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
958 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
959 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
960 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
961 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
962 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
965 git checkout config origin/config
967 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
969 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
970 =========================
975 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
976 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
977 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
978 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
979 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
980 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
981 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
983 Command-Line Interface
984 ----------------------
986 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
988 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
989 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
990 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
991 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
992 script callers should still check the return value.
994 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
996 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
997 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
998 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
999 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1000 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1001 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1002 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1004 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1006 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1007 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1008 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1010 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1012 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1013 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1014 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1015 currently unmaintained.
1017 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1019 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1020 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1021 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1022 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1024 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1026 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1027 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1028 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1029 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1030 count of duplicate addresses.
1035 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1037 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1038 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1039 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1042 Improved handling of the unread tag
1044 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1045 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1046 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1047 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1048 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1049 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1050 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1052 Expanded default saved search settings
1054 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1055 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1057 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1059 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1060 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1061 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1063 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1065 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1066 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1067 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1068 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1069 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1070 the variable for details.
1075 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1077 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1078 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1079 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1080 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1082 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1084 Previously, library users were required to call
1085 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1086 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1087 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1088 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1089 too out of date for that API.
1091 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1093 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1094 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1095 atomic section will be aborted.
1097 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1098 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1100 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1102 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1103 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1104 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1105 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1106 messages into the same thread.
1111 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1112 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1113 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1114 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1115 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1116 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1121 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1122 from the config file. Use something like:
1126 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1127 "footer": "</body></html>",
1136 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1141 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1142 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1143 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1145 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1146 ===========================
1151 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1153 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1155 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1157 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1158 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1160 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1162 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1165 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1166 ===========================
1168 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1173 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1175 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1177 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1179 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1181 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1187 Use --quick when starting emacs
1189 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1191 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1193 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1195 Command-Line Interface
1196 ----------------------
1198 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1199 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1204 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1206 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1207 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1209 Fix for phrase indexing
1211 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1212 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1213 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1218 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1220 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1221 unintentionally removed.
1223 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1224 =========================
1229 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1230 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1231 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1232 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1233 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1234 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1235 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1236 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1237 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1243 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1245 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1246 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1247 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1248 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1249 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1250 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1251 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1252 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1254 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1256 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1257 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1258 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1259 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1262 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1264 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1265 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1266 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1267 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1268 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1269 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1270 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1275 Notmuch database upgrade
1277 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1278 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1279 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1280 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1281 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1282 released version of Notmuch before now.
1284 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1286 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1287 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1288 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1289 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1291 Message header parsing changes
1293 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1294 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1295 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1296 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1297 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1298 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1300 Command-Line Interface
1301 ----------------------
1303 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1305 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1307 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1309 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1311 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1313 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1314 user does not want it.
1316 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1318 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1319 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1320 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1321 support formatted output.
1323 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1325 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1326 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1327 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1335 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1336 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1337 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1338 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1339 `~/.emacs` with these.
1341 Changed format for saved searches
1343 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1344 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1345 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1346 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1349 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1350 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1351 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1352 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1354 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1355 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1356 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1358 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1359 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1360 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1361 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1362 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1364 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1366 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1367 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1368 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1370 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1372 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1373 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1374 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1375 message had been unread).
1377 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1378 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1379 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1380 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1382 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1383 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1384 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1386 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1387 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1388 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1389 to tags already present.
1393 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1394 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1395 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1396 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1397 these differ from each other.
1398 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1400 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1402 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1403 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1404 for these Emacs versions.
1406 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1408 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1409 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1411 Bug fixes for sender identities
1413 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1414 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1415 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1417 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1419 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1420 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1421 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1422 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1424 Reply pushes mark before signature
1426 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1427 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1428 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1430 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1432 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1433 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1439 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1440 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1442 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1443 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1444 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1445 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1447 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1448 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1449 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1450 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1451 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1453 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1455 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1456 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1458 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1459 =========================
1461 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1462 ---------------------------------------
1464 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1465 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1466 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1467 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1468 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1469 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1470 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1474 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1475 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1477 Command-Line Interface
1478 ----------------------
1480 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1482 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1483 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1484 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1485 print for each message.
1487 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1488 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1489 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1490 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1492 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1494 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1495 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1496 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1498 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1500 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1501 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1502 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1503 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1505 `notmuch compact` command
1507 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1508 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1509 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1510 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1511 move the compacted database into place.
1516 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1518 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1519 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1520 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1521 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1522 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1523 and multiple threads.
1525 Using `notmuch-tree`
1527 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1529 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1530 search, show and tree mode itself)
1532 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1535 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1536 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1538 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1540 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1541 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1542 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1543 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1544 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1545 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1546 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1548 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1550 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1551 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1552 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1553 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1554 thread when the search was performed.
1556 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1558 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1559 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1560 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1562 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1564 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1565 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1568 Built-in help improvements
1570 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1571 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1572 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1574 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1576 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1577 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1578 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1580 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1582 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1583 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1585 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1587 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1588 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1589 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1590 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1592 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1594 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1595 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1596 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1597 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1599 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1601 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1602 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1603 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1605 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1607 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1608 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1609 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1611 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1613 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1614 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1615 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1616 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1617 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1619 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1621 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1622 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1623 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1624 the body part of the message.
1629 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1630 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1631 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1633 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1634 =========================
1636 Command-Line Interface
1637 ----------------------
1639 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1641 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1642 folder and notmuch index.
1644 `notmuch count --batch` option
1646 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1647 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1649 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1651 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1652 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1653 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1656 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1658 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1659 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1660 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1661 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1662 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1665 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1667 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1668 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1670 Top level option to specify configuration file
1672 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1673 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1675 Bash command-line completion
1677 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1678 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1679 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1680 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1681 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1682 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1683 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1684 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1685 bash-completion package.
1687 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1692 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1694 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1695 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1696 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1697 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1698 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1699 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1700 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1701 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1703 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1705 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1706 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1707 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1709 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1711 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1712 previous thread in the search results.
1714 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1716 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1717 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1719 Faster search and show
1721 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1722 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1723 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1724 threads should show faster.
1728 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1729 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1730 in question was now removed from this release.
1735 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1736 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1741 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1743 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1744 ===========================
1749 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1751 Internal test framework changes
1752 -------------------------------
1754 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1755 being unimplemented.
1757 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1758 ===========================
1760 Internal test framework changes
1761 -------------------------------
1763 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1764 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1766 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1767 =========================
1772 Date range search support
1774 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1775 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1776 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1777 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1778 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1781 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1783 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1784 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1785 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1786 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1787 but may be removed in a future release.
1789 Command-Line Interface
1790 ----------------------
1792 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1794 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1795 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1797 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1799 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1800 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1801 officially deprecated.
1803 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1805 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1806 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1807 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1809 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1811 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1812 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1815 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1816 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1817 dump/restore format.
1819 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1821 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1822 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1823 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1825 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1827 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1828 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1829 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1831 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1833 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1834 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1835 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1836 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1841 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1843 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1844 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1845 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1846 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1848 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1850 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1851 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1852 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1853 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1854 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1855 the behavior of this, see
1856 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1857 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1859 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1860 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1861 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1863 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1865 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1866 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1869 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1871 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1872 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1873 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1874 simply displayed in place of the message.
1876 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1878 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1879 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1881 Improved text/calendar content handling
1883 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1884 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1885 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1886 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1888 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1890 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1891 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1892 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1893 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1895 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1897 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1898 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1899 for HTML email containing images.
1901 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1903 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1905 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1907 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1910 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1912 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1913 the point where it was.
1915 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1917 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1918 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1919 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1920 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1921 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1923 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1925 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1926 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1927 thread instead of the message id.
1929 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1930 -----------------------------
1932 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1933 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1934 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1935 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1936 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1937 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1938 further details and installation.
1943 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1945 Internal test framework changes
1946 -------------------------------
1948 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1950 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1951 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1952 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1953 can result in buggy behavior.
1955 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1956 =========================
1961 Maildir tag synchronization
1963 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1964 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1965 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1966 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1967 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1968 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1971 Command-Line Interface
1972 ----------------------
1974 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1975 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1976 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1977 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1978 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1984 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1986 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1988 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1989 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1990 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1992 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1994 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1995 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1996 span multiple lines.
1998 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2000 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2001 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2002 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2003 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2004 inside the result or message.
2006 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2008 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2009 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2011 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2012 user-specified formatting
2014 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2015 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2016 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2017 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2018 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2020 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2021 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2023 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2024 ===========================
2029 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2030 compilation error for this contrib package.
2032 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2033 ===========================
2038 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2040 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2041 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2042 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2043 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2045 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2046 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2049 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2050 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2051 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2052 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2055 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2057 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2060 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2061 =========================
2063 Command-Line Interface
2064 ----------------------
2068 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2069 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2070 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2071 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2073 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2074 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2075 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2076 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2080 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2081 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2083 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2084 tag in your query, for example:
2086 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2088 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2089 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2091 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2092 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2094 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2096 Raw show format changes
2098 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2099 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2100 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2101 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2102 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2103 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2104 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2105 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2107 Listing configuration items
2109 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2115 Changes to tagging interface
2117 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2118 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2119 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2120 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2121 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2122 for more information.
2124 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2125 may need to update in custom configurations.
2127 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2129 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2130 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2131 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2132 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2135 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2136 -----------------------------
2138 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2139 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2140 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2141 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2142 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2143 contrib/ from now on.
2148 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2149 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2151 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2152 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2154 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2155 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2156 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2158 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2159 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2161 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2162 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2163 returning the new database object or directory object.
2170 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2171 compatible with go 1.
2173 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2174 =========================
2176 Command-Line Interface
2177 ----------------------
2181 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2182 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2183 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2184 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2186 Mail store folder/file ignore
2188 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2189 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2190 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2192 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2193 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2195 Unified help and manual pages
2197 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2198 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2201 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2203 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2204 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2212 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2213 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2214 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2215 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2217 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2219 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2220 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2222 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2225 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2226 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2227 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2229 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2231 should be changed to:
2233 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2235 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2237 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2238 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2240 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2242 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2243 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2244 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2245 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2246 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2247 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2251 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2252 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2253 of Mailing List Archives.
2255 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2257 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2258 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2261 Show view archiving key binding changes
2263 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2264 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2265 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2266 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2267 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2270 Support text/calendar MIME type
2272 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2275 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2277 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2278 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2279 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2280 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2282 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2284 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2285 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2286 messages blue by default in the search view.
2290 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2291 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2298 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2301 Python bindings changes
2302 -----------------------
2304 Python 3.2 compatibility
2306 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2308 Added missing unicode conversions
2310 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2311 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2312 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2317 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2319 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2320 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2321 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2322 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2323 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2325 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2326 ===========================
2331 Fix error handling in python bindings
2333 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2334 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2335 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2336 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2338 Quote MML tags in replies
2340 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2341 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2342 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2343 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2344 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2345 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2346 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2347 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2349 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2350 =========================
2352 Command-Line Interface
2353 ----------------------
2357 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2358 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2359 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2360 importing new messages into the database.
2362 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2364 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2365 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2366 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2371 Automatic tag query optimization
2373 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2374 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2375 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2377 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2379 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2380 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2381 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2386 Reduction of memory leaks
2388 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2389 and fixed in this release.
2396 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2397 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2398 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2401 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2403 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2404 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2405 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2408 Improvements in saved search management
2410 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2411 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2412 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2414 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2416 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2417 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2418 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2420 New face for crypto parts headers
2422 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2423 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2424 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2427 Use space as default thousands separator
2429 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2430 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2431 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2433 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2434 buttonized id: links
2436 New function notmuch-show-advance
2438 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2439 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2440 be bound to SPC with:
2442 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2444 Various performance improvements
2449 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2450 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2453 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2454 ===========================
2459 Fix crash in python bindings
2461 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2462 for some, but not all users.
2464 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2465 ===========================
2470 Fix `--help` argument
2472 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2473 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2474 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2476 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2477 =========================
2479 New build and testing features
2480 ------------------------------
2482 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2483 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2484 prerequisites is improved.
2486 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2488 New command-line features
2489 -------------------------
2491 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2493 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2494 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2497 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2499 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2500 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2501 favour of using stdout.
2503 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2505 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2506 limit the number of results shown.
2508 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2510 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2511 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2514 New emacs UI features
2515 ---------------------
2517 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2519 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2520 starting with "tag:".
2522 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2524 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2525 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2527 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2529 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2531 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2533 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2534 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2539 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2541 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2543 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2544 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2545 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2546 requires a database rebuild:
2548 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2549 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2551 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2553 New collection of add-on tools
2554 ------------------------------
2556 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2557 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2558 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2561 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2563 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2564 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2565 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2567 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2568 ========================
2570 New, general features
2571 ---------------------
2573 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2575 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2576 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2577 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2578 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2579 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2586 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2587 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2589 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2593 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2594 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2595 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2598 Python bindings changes
2599 -----------------------
2601 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2603 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2604 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2605 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2606 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2607 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2608 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2610 Ruby bindings changes
2611 ---------------------
2613 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2614 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2615 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2616 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2621 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2623 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2624 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2626 Reply formatting cleanup
2627 ------------------------
2629 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2630 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2632 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2633 ========================
2635 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2637 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2638 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2639 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2640 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2643 Improved Build system portability
2645 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2646 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2647 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2649 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2651 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2653 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2655 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2656 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2657 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2659 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2660 ========================
2662 Vim interface improvements
2663 --------------------------
2665 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2667 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2668 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2669 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2670 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2671 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2673 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2675 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2676 * fix compose temp file name
2678 Python Bindings changes
2679 -----------------------
2681 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2683 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2684 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2686 Build-System improvements
2687 -------------------------
2689 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2691 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2694 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2695 ==========================
2700 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2702 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2703 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2705 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2706 =======================
2708 New, general features
2709 ---------------------
2711 Folder-based searching
2713 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2714 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2715 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2719 For example, one might use things such as:
2725 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2726 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2728 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2729 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2730 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2731 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2733 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2734 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2735 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2738 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2739 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2741 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2743 Support for PGP/MIME
2745 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2746 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2747 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2749 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2751 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2752 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2754 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2755 notmuch will receive these tags.
2757 New command-line features
2758 -------------------------
2760 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2762 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2763 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2765 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2767 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2768 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2769 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2771 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2773 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2774 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2775 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2776 which parts a signature part applies).
2778 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2780 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2781 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2782 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2783 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2784 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2787 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2789 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2790 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2791 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2792 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2793 by translating it internally to the new call.
2795 Performance improvements
2796 ------------------------
2798 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2800 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2801 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2802 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2804 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2805 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2807 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2809 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2810 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2811 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2813 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2814 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2815 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2816 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2818 Faster initial indexing
2820 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2821 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2822 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2824 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2826 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2827 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2828 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2829 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2831 New emacs-interface features
2832 ----------------------------
2834 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2836 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2837 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2838 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2839 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2840 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2841 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2843 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2845 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2846 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2847 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2848 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2850 User-selectable From address
2852 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2853 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2854 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2855 will prompt for the from address to use.
2857 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2858 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2859 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2861 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2862 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2863 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2866 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2868 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2869 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2871 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2873 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2875 ----- Original Message -----
2877 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2878 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2879 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2880 citations work much like conventional citations.
2882 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2884 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2885 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2886 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2887 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2888 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2890 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2891 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2893 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2895 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2896 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2897 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2899 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2901 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2902 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2903 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2904 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2905 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2907 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2909 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2912 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2914 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2916 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2918 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2921 Vim interface improvements
2922 --------------------------
2924 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2926 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2927 * Implementing archive in show view
2928 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2929 * Add delete commands
2932 Bindings improvements
2933 ---------------------
2935 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2937 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2938 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2940 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2942 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2946 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2947 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2948 `list(Messages)` works now
2949 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2951 These allow, for example:
2953 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2955 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2957 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2963 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2965 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2968 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2970 New build-system features
2971 -------------------------
2973 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2975 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2976 the configure script from some other directory:
2983 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2985 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2986 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2987 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2988 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2989 manual invocation of configure.
2991 New test-suite feature
2992 ----------------------
2994 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2996 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2997 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2998 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2999 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3000 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3003 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3005 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3006 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3007 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3008 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3009 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3010 are updated to take advantage of this.
3012 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3014 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3015 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3016 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3017 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3023 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3025 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3026 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3027 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3029 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3031 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3033 to:user@elsewhere.com
3035 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3037 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3039 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3041 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3042 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3043 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3046 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3047 from the Received headers in some cases
3049 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3050 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3052 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3054 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3056 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3058 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3059 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3060 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3062 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3063 -------------------------
3065 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3067 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3068 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3069 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3071 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3073 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3074 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3075 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3078 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3080 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3081 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3082 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3083 fixed to avoid this bug.
3085 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3087 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3088 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3090 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3091 ========================
3093 New, general features
3094 ---------------------
3096 Maildir-flag synchronization
3098 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3099 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3108 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3110 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3111 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3112 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3113 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3115 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3116 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3117 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3118 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3121 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3123 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3124 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3125 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3127 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3128 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3130 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3131 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3133 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3134 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3135 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3137 New library features
3138 --------------------
3140 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3142 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3143 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3144 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3145 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3147 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3148 message with the new function:
3150 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3152 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3153 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3154 over all available filenames for a given message.
3156 New command-line features
3157 -------------------------
3159 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3161 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3162 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3163 access to the mail store itself.
3165 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3166 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3167 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3168 name of a script containing:
3170 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3172 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3173 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3179 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3181 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3183 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3185 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3186 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3187 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3188 now produces nothing).
3190 Emacs interface improvements
3191 ----------------------------
3193 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3195 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3197 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3199 Display current thread subject in a header line
3201 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3203 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3205 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3206 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3207 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3208 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3209 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3210 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3211 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3213 Vim interface improvements
3214 --------------------------
3216 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3218 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3219 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3225 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3227 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3228 ========================
3230 New command-line features
3231 -------------------------
3233 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3235 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3236 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3237 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3239 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3240 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3241 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3242 scripts. For example:
3244 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3245 <operations-on> "$file"
3248 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3250 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3251 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3252 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3253 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3254 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3255 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3257 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3259 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3260 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3261 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3262 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3264 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3266 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3267 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3268 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3269 default rather than Bcc.
3271 New library features
3272 --------------------
3274 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3276 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3277 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3282 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3284 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3285 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3286 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3287 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3288 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3289 notmuch customize interface.
3291 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3293 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3294 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3295 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3296 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3298 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3300 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3301 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3302 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3303 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3305 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3307 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3308 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3309 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3310 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3311 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3312 notmuch customize interface.
3314 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3316 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3317 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3318 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3319 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3320 notmuch customize interface.
3322 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3324 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3325 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3326 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3327 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3330 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3332 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3333 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3334 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3337 New build-system features
3338 -------------------------
3340 Various portability fixes have been applied
3342 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3343 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3344 more portable than ever before.
3346 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3348 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3349 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3350 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3352 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3353 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3354 automatically run ldconfig.
3356 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3357 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3358 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3360 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3361 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3362 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3363 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3365 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3367 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3368 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3369 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3370 used in the resulting Makefile.
3372 New test-suite features
3373 -----------------------
3375 New modularization of test suite
3377 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3378 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3379 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3380 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3381 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3382 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3383 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3384 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3386 New testing of emacs interface
3388 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3389 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3390 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3391 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3392 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3393 database via the FCC setting.
3398 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3400 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3401 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3402 persistent error of the form:
3404 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3406 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3407 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3409 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3411 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3412 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3413 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3415 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3417 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3418 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3419 parsing the notmuch results).
3421 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3423 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3426 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3427 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3428 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3433 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3435 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3436 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3437 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3438 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3439 the emacs interface.
3441 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3443 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3444 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3445 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3447 Python-binding fixes
3448 --------------------
3450 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3452 Debian-specific fixes
3453 ---------------------
3455 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3457 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3458 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3459 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3462 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3463 ==========================
3468 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3470 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3471 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3472 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3473 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3475 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3477 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3478 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3479 want notmuch to crash.
3484 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3486 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3487 directory does not exist
3492 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3494 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3495 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3497 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3498 ========================
3500 New command-line features
3501 -------------------------
3503 User-configurable tags for new messages
3505 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3506 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3507 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3508 to specify this value.
3510 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3512 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3513 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3514 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3516 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3518 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3519 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3521 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3523 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3524 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3525 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3526 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3527 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3530 Indication of author names that match a search
3532 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3533 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3534 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3535 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3536 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3537 messages in the thread are listed first.
3539 New: Python bindings
3540 --------------------
3542 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3543 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3544 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3545 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3547 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3548 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3549 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3552 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3553 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3554 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3556 Emacs interface improvements
3557 ----------------------------
3559 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3561 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3562 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3563 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3564 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3565 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3566 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3567 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3568 but without any of the disadvantages).
3570 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3571 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3572 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3575 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3576 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3577 instead running something like:
3579 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3581 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3582 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3583 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3586 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3588 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3589 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3590 tweaked by the user.
3592 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3593 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3594 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3597 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3598 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3599 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3602 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3604 This support currently relies on an external program,
3605 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3606 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3607 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3608 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3609 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3612 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3613 notmuch) is available via:
3615 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3617 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3618 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3619 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3621 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3623 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3624 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3625 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3626 making this automatic in a future release.
3628 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3630 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3631 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3632 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3633 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3634 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3635 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3638 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3640 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3641 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3642 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3644 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3646 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3647 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3648 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3650 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3651 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3652 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3653 other representation.
3655 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3656 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3659 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3661 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3662 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3663 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3665 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3666 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3667 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3669 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3671 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3672 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3673 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3674 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3675 to display the search result.
3677 More flexible handling of header visibility
3679 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3680 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3681 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3682 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3683 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3684 with the 'h' keybinding.
3686 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3687 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3688 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3690 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3692 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3694 Customizable formatting of search results
3696 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3697 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3698 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3700 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3702 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3704 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3709 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3711 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3712 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3713 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3714 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3720 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3722 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3723 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3725 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3727 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3728 accept are now all accepted.
3733 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3735 Better display of output from failed tests
3737 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3738 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3740 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3741 ========================
3743 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3744 detailed release notes this time!
3746 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3747 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3749 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3750 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3751 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3752 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3759 Better guessing of From: header
3761 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3762 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3763 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3764 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3765 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3768 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3770 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3771 guaranteed to match all messages.
3773 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3775 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3776 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3777 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3778 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3779 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3782 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3785 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3786 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3787 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3788 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3793 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3795 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3796 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3797 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3798 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3800 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3802 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3804 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3805 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3806 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3808 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3810 Previously, the user might see:
3812 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3816 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3818 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3819 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3820 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3821 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3823 Emacs client features
3824 ---------------------
3826 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3828 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3829 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3830 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3831 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3832 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3834 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3837 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3838 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3839 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3840 search with the '*' binding.
3842 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3844 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3845 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3848 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3850 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3851 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3852 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3854 Build-system features
3855 ---------------------
3857 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3859 Add support to configure for many standard options
3861 We include actual support for:
3863 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3865 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3867 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3868 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3870 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3871 separate "make install-emacs"
3873 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3875 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3876 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3877 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3879 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3882 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3883 ========================
3885 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3887 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3888 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3890 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3891 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3892 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3893 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3894 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3895 tags from messages in a thread.
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